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The gripping new race-against-time thriller by the best-selling author of Relentless, The Last 10 Seconds and The Final Minute. When Jane Kinnear sees her lover being murdered, she suddenly finds herself in danger. Taken to an anonymous police safe house, it soon becomes clear that her lover was an MI5 informant with important information about an imminent terrorist attack.

When Max I Versson, codirector of a small firm of freelance bodyguards, is introduced to North London nightclub owner Roy Fowler, he immediately senses that the man is trouble. Fowler wants security for a meeting with a group of businessmen who want to buy his nightclub. Five grand for a couple of hours' work is too tempting to turn down, so Iversson - against his better judgment - takes the work....

Seven people wake up in a remote mansion. The doors are all locked. They have no idea where they are. Who brought them there. Or how to escape. Each knew the victims of a dreadful crime committed four years earlier but that's all that links them. Then a voice echoes through the house with a terrifying message. They've been poisoned - and have less than 12 hours to live. There's an antidote on hand: but only if someone admits to being a killer. And they all claim to be innocent. The time for confession is rapidly running out. How many - if any - of them will survive the night?

He's a detective hunting cold-blooded killers, but does he know more than he admits? She's a lawyer who must defend a murderer - but how far will she go to protect her only child? They have a plan - but can they trust each other with their lives?

When writer Rob Fallon gets drunk one night and ends up joining his friend's girlfriend, Jenny, back at her apartment in London's West End, he's feeling guilty before anything's even happened. But guilt quickly turns to shock when a sequence of events put him in the centre of a mystery and a deadly race against time.

Undercover cop Chris Sketty became a hero when he almost died trying to stop the most brutal terror attack in UK history. With the suspects either dead or missing, the real motive remains a mystery. But someone is convinced Sketty is a liar. A criminal mastermind. A murderer. Blackmailed into revealing the truth, Sketty will share a twisting tale of betrayal, deception and murder...with a revelation so shocking that nothing will be the same again.

Alastair Sheridan has it all. Wealth, good looks, a beautiful wife and children and, in the chaotic world of British politics, a real chance of becoming prime minister. But Alastair also has a secret. He’s a serial killer with a taste for young women. Only a handful of people know what kind of monster he is, and disgraced detective Ray Mason is one of them....

A house deep in the countryside where the remains of seven unidentified women have just been discovered. A cop ready to risk everything in the hunt for their killers. A man who has seen the murders and is now on the run in fear of his life. So begins the race to track down this witness before the killers do. For Ray Mason and PI Tina Boyd, the road ahead is a dangerous one, with bodies and betrayal at every turn....

From Sunday Times bestselling author Simon Kernick - the UK's answer to Harlan Coben - come two electrifying novellas and three gripping short stories published in book form for the very first time. Fans of David Baldacci, Stuart MacBride and Peter James will not be disappointed.

A new twist to a decades old mystery. 1990. A young woman goes missing while backpacking in Thailand. She is never seen again. 2016. Her bones are discovered 6000 miles away in an English field and, within hours, the boyfriend who reported her disappearance all those years ago is dead. So begins a hunt to solve her murder that will take DI Ray Mason and PI Tina Boyd into a dark and terrifying world of corruption and deadly secrets, where murder is commonplace, and nothing and nobody is safe....

THE UNDERCOVER COP. Having worked undercover the last ten years, Sean Egan is used to life on the edge. He’s recently infiltrated one of London’s most dangerous criminal gangs, and they’ve just informed him that they want him for a very special job: the daring abduction from police custody of a serial killer known as The Night Creeper. THE KILLER. Brutally violent yet highly intelligent, The Night Creeper has earned his reputation by torturing five young women to death.

You come home to find your wife missing - and the body of a woman you've never seen in her place. A phone in her hand starts to ring. A voice says you have 24 hours to clear your name; 24 hours to save your wife. But there's only one way to do it. You must kill someone for them. Someone you've never heard of. A complete stranger. And the clock is ticking.

"Du skal hjælpe mig med at finde en morder."

"Har du nogen idé om, hvem morderen er?"

"Jeg tror måske, det er mig."

En traumatisk bilulykke. En mand uden hukommelse, der

hjemsøges af mareridt.

Da fortiden melder sig på den mest rædselsvækkende måde, er Matt Barron tvunget til at gå til den eneste, der kan hjælpe:

tidligere betjent i London-politiet, nu privatdetektiv, Tina Boyd.

Snart er de begge på flugt …

De er ude efter dig. Efter at se dig død. Tom Meron, en lykkelig gift far til to, som aldrig har været i vanskeligheder, modtager et telefonopkald, der vil ændre hans liv for altid. Hans ven, Jack Calley, en højtflyvende storby-advokat, skriger ind i telefonen om hjælp. Mens Meron lytter med, bliver Calley myrdet. Han siger sine sidste ord til sin drabsmand: de to første linjer af Merons adresse.

Du har set for meget. Nu er der ikke sikkert nogen steder.

Ved et tilfælde ser Jane Kinnear sin elsker, Anil, blive myrdet, og pludselig er hun i morderens søgelys. Politiet skynder sig at få hende bragt til et sikkert hus, og det går snart op for hende, at den mand, hun troede, hun kendte, faktisk var kilde hos MI5 og lå inde med vigtige oplysninger om et overhængende terrorangreb.

Det kan tage et helt liv at få hævn for en forbrydelse. Da resterne af en 21-årig kvinde, der forsvandt sporløst i Thailand i 1990, bliver fundet i jorden på en gammel katolsk skole i Buckinghamshire, tager det langvarige mysterium en helt ny drejning.

Syv ofre. Tre mordere. Én dødbringende hemmelighed. Et hus langt ude på landet, hvor resterne af syv uidentificerede kvinder netop er blevet fundet. En politimand, der er parat til at risikere alt i jagten på deres mordere. En mand, som har set mordene og nu er på flugt, fordi han frygter for sit liv. Således begynder kapløbet om at finde frem til vidnet, før morderne gør det. For Ray Mason og privatdetektiv Tina Boyd venter en farlig vej, hvor lig og bedrag lurer bag hvert et sving.

Da Operation Kirurgisk Indgreb, en politiaktion, der skal fange colombianske narkohandlere i at sælge et stort parti kokain til undercover-betjente på et hotel i Heathrow, går frygteligt galt, falder mistanken hurtigt på en af de involverede betjente: Stegs Jenner. Men Stegs er ingen almindelig undercover-betjent. Som lidt af en enspænder med en række disciplinære anmærkninger har han altid levet på kanten. Da hans nære ven er død i en skudepisode, beslutter han nu at gå selv.

Alastair Sheridan har det hele. Penge, et godt udseende, en smuk kone og børn og, i Storbritanniens kaotiske, politiske verden, en reel chance for at blive premierminister. Men Alastair har også en hemmelighed. Han er seriemorder med smag for unge kvinder. Kun en lille håndfuld mennesker ved, hvilket monster han er, og den vanærede kriminalassistent Ray Mason er en af dem.

Regel nummer et: hold dig i live. Sean Egan har arbejdet undercover de sidste ti år og er vant til at leve på kanten. For nylig har han infiltreret en af Londons farligste forbryderbander, og de har lige meddelt ham, at de vil have ham med på et helt særligt job: den dristige bortførsel fra politiets varetægt af en seriemorder kendt under navnet Natteluskeren. Morderen: Yderst voldelig, men meget intelligent. Natteluskeren har oparbejdet sit ry ved at torturere fem unge kvinder til døde.